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Announcing Grid Engine 6.0 Beta</h1></center>

<center>Regensburg, Germany -- March 19, 2004</center>

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<p>Grid Engine 6.0 Beta is now ready and courtesy binaries are available
for download.
<p>Grid Engine 6.0 is an important step forward to simplify Grid Computing
at the Enterprise and Cluster Grid level. Important new features of Grid
Engine 6.0 are support for flexible to use cluster queues, resource reservation
and availability of the job submission and control library DRMAA.
<p>There is no more distinction between the baseline product and the Enterprise
Edition. The functionality of the Enterprise Edition is now the default
feature set.
<p>The courtesy binaries are available at:
<blockquote>&nbsp;<a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/download-beta.html">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/download-beta.html</a></blockquote>
Please send your support questions and feedback to the "dev" mailing of
the
<br>Grid Engine open source project.
<p>A snapshot of the Grid Engine 6.0 Beta sources will be available by
03/22/2004 as a tar ball at the " <a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList">File
Exchange Tool</a>&nbsp; as file:
<blockquote><b>sge-V60_beta1_target_BRANCH-src.tar.gz</b></blockquote>
The corresponding source code in CVS has the tag
<blockquote><b>V60_beta1_target_BRANCH</b></blockquote>

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